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What does the baby feel during childbirth?
Women can talk about their birth for hours in all the details. But few people know about what the child feels at this time. But experts have long proven that the baby is making a lot of efforts in order to be born.
The female body is designed so that childbirth starts at the right time by itself. The fetus, which has no experience of birth, also begins to prepare for the “journey” along the birth canal. With the first contractions, the baby receives oxytocin – a love hormone and acts as a sedative, because childbirth is stressful for him.
How does the baby feel during contractions?
Tightness and inconvenience. But he doesn’t hurt: it’s more like a tight hug. With each new contraction, the child receives less oxygen. Don’t panic! The baby is ready for this, he falls into a kind of trance and may even fall asleep while the uterus opens.
What does the baby hear and see during childbirth?
Even before being born, a child hears the voices of his relatives. In nine months, he gets used to his mother’s voice and can recognize it at the time of birth. The baby sees badly, in front of him is a blurry picture. And when it is born, the first thing that the baby can see more clearly is the distance from the chest to the face of its mother.
How does the baby breathe through the birth canal?
In the womb, the baby’s lungs are filled with fluid, and oxygen flows through the placenta. When it comes time to be born, the lungs begin to gradually get rid of mucus and fluid. And after birth, blood enters the lungs, and the baby takes its first breath. This is uncomfortable because he is not used to breathing air on his own.
How does the baby move during childbirth?
At this moment, mom and baby are one team. The muscles of the uterus contract and press on the child, forcing him to strive downward, and the child presses his legs and arms to himself to make it easier to pass through the birth canal. When the baby moves through the narrowest space between the bones of the pelvis, a protective cushion of swollen subcutaneous adipose tissue forms on his head. It protects the child’s brain from pressure that is ten times its own weight. Before being born, the baby bends the neck, and when the head is shown outward, he turns it to the side (doctors often do this). After that, the baby pushes off from the bottom of the uterus and appears in full growth.
Does the baby hurt during childbirth?
The child is able to feel pain from the 20th week of pregnancy. But scientists believe that during childbirth, the child does not feel it. The baby takes a comfortable position and squeezes so hard that it allows him to move along the birth canal without pain. This is also facilitated by the movable bones of the skull in babies. Therefore, after childbirth in babies, the shape of the head is deformed, but later it is restored.
Experts cannot give a definite answer to this question. Of course, he experiences a lot of inconvenience and he does not like the environment in which he finds himself after birth. The baby is shocked because it leaves the warm and dark womb of the mother and ends up in a very bright and cold room.